In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

offshoring the entire production process. Restoring competitiveness will require steps to strengthen the country’s growth …, promoting innovation, reducing the tax burden, boosting competition and creating favourable conditions for businesses to grow …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted …We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …

knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation …

engaged in an incremental innovation by 4.48% using a random-sampled firm survey in China. The estimate is close to those in … incremental innovation. We discuss how the link between imports and innovation in the South differ from that in the North. …

–2004 based on the 4th Community Innovation Survey for Portugal. We estimated several Knowledge Production Functions, assuming …

This paper examines how export and export destination stimulates innovation by Russian manufacturing firms. The …

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation …—are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level. Specific …